Utilização da ferramenta on-line do Atlas Eólico e Solar do Ceará na avaliação preliminar do potencial solar em duas localidades do estado

Abstract

The population growth and increasing reliance on technology has caused the demand for electricity to increase significantly in recent years. Brazil, despite having its energy matrix, for the most part, made up of a water source, which despite being considered renewable, still has many environmental impacts linked and a lot of seasonality, as in dry periods. Thus, it becomes necessary for the country to further diversify its matrix with clean sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, which despite having little participation in the current matrix, Brazil has enormous potential. Among the regions of Brazil, the Northeast has the greatest potential for this source, with emphasis on the state of Ceará, which occupies the first position in terms of installed power. Despite this, the state still has a lot of potential to present itself. Thus, the objective of this work was to take the knowledge of the Wind and Solar Atlas of Ceará and its functionalities to companies, investors and the academic community. For this, this tool was used to assess the potential for installing a solar system in two locations in the state of Ceará, exploring the main information that the platform provides in order to choose the best place to install a solar energy system that would provide a production monthly of 5,000 kWh. A comparison was also made of data from three real systems with the data provided by the Atlas, observing a difference of less than 2% in two terrains and 9% in the third terrain, thus showing that the Atlas has very relevant data, serving as a free, accessible and reliable data source.